From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11869 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2012 15:06:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 11858 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2012 15:06:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hagrid.ecoscentric.com (HELO mail.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:05:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693A02F78009 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kNdZCxr8J25Z; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:05:18 +0000 (GMT) From: bugzilla-daemon@bugs.ecos.sourceware.org To: ecos-patches@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [Bug 1001466] /dev/null serial driver X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: eCos X-Bugzilla-Component: Patches and contributions X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: ilijak@siva.com.mk X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: low X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned@bugs.ecos.sourceware.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: CC In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:06:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20120216150518.4668A2F78001@mail.ecoscentric.com> Mailing-List: contact ecos-patches-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-patches-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 Please do not reply to this email. Use the web interface provided at: http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001466 Ilija Kocho changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ilijak@siva.com.mk --- Comment #7 from Ilija Kocho 2012-02-16 15:05:15 GMT --- (In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > [snip] > > > Well the name '/dev/null' is known for decades and for any *nix > > developer this name tells what it does, as posix/opengroup use this > > name. > > But it is not terminal/teletype/console/serial, etc. From your source > (Open Group) > > /dev/null > An infinite data source and data sink. Data written to /dev/null > shall be discarded. Reads from /dev/null shall always return > end-of-file (EOF). > > (EOF) - END OF *FILE*. As I said /dev/null is a special FILE. But, > /dev/null is not TTY device (not terminal): > > Check in Python > > >>> import os > >>> fd=os.open("/dev/null", os.O_RDWR) > >>> os.isatty(fd) > False > > Check in C > > % cc -xc - < > main(){printf("/dev/null is %s > tty\n",isatty(open("/dev/null","r"))?"a":"not");} > EOF > % ./a.out > /dev/null is not tty > Shall it really be a problem to use name /dev/null? I don't think so, at least to me first association with /dev/null is the null device. If it sinks on write and returns EOF on read it should be enough. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.